Word: reno
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Suing for Divorce. Robert Emmet Sherwood, playwright; from Mary Brandon Sherwood; in Reno. Grounds: "the usual thing...
Sued for Divorce. Paul Gallico, sports editor of the tabloid New York Daily News; by Mrs. Alva Taylor Gallico; in Reno. Charge: cruelty...
Divorced. Harold Edward Lobdell, 37, undergraduate dean at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; by his bride of five months, Mrs. Eileen MacLeod Lobdell; in Reno. Charge: cruelty...
...late for mention in the annual report was news of Banker Giannini's latest excursion out of his native California across the Sierras. Last fortnight Transamerica announced that it had purchased Nevada's biggest bank, First National of Reno. Nevada is as short of banks as it is of rain. It was the first state to declare a moratorium during the Depression-Nov. 1, 1932, day after it celebrated the 68th anniversary of its admission to the Union. No banks have failed since but a tottering chain of twelve institutions, owned by George Wingfield, oldtime gambler and mining...
...sleigh is waiting. Heat Lightning (Warner). This small investigation of goings-on at a desert gas-station is sharper and more honest than most one-room melodramas manufactured in Hollywood. Under Mervyn Le Roy's perceptive direction there are vigorous and amusing sequences: the arrival, en route from Reno to the coast, of two nervous, overdressed divorcees with their languid chauffeur (Frank McHugh ) ; an itinerant bankrobber's bashful greeting to a brash female hitchhiker; a Mexican peasant apologizing for the Ford which contains his wife, children, chicken coop and guitar. Aline MacMahon ably portrays the proprietress, a calm...